Natalie is an adoptee who was born in Colombia and adopted out to Norway when she was 9 months old.
She just went through reunion, and will disclose some interesting details in our conversation. (I don't want to spill the beans.)
Here is the link to her GoFundMe we talked about in the episode in case anyone wants to help her get to meet her family.
https://gofund.me/84c55282. She found her family in a way, that I thought was kind of unlikely!A Facebook group!
Apparently there are a lot of Colombian people looking for each other. You can find it here.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/356415144461053/?ref=share
Natalie also suggested this site as a good resource for Colombian adoptees.
https://www.healingpuentes.com
The following is information she sent me after our conversation, from when she was having trouble thinking of the term.
🔸️https://www.besean.co.uk/spotlight/trauma-and-language
🔸️"The interconnection of the experience of trauma and the role
of language within this is not causal and mono-directional but complex andmultilayered. Not only can language be part or cause of traumatic events buttrauma can also, as a consequence, severely impact on a person’s linguisticrepertoire: on his or her inclination to learn languages, to use, retain, orabandon a particular language, or to take refuge in silence (Betten 2010; Thüne 2013; Busch2016a). On the other hand, particular, sometimesperipheral components of a person’s communicative repertoire, such as a ‘third’unburdened language or poetic means of expression, can become unexpected, vitalsources for coping and resilience (Busch and Reddemann 2013)." (https://academic.oup.com/applij/article/41/3/323/5821459)
